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An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Age: 39 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 4
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All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
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The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.
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Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
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Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
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You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
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Jesus is not an impractical idealist he is the practical realist.
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Don't let anybody take your manhood.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer
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To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
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We must stand up and say, I'm black and I'm beautiful, and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
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White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
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